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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:7872 comp.os.minix:20881 comp.os.linux:15833 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!tamuts!n217cg From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor) Subject: Re: Floppy overrun/underrun messages...what does it mean? Message-ID: <1992Nov12.220905.9340@tamsun.tamu.edu> Followup-To: comp.os.linux Summary: me, too Keywords: floppies, SCSI Sender: Scott Taylor (n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu) Organization: Texas A&M University References: <11NOV199218250599@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov12.004814.22770@news.nd.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:09:05 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1992Nov12.004814.22770@news.nd.edu> bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling) writes: > >I recently switched from an ESDI setup to a SCSI setup. On reinstalling >linux from SLS ver 0.98pl1 i got numerous floppy overrun/underrun errors... >retrying, etc. This happened both when I was mkefs -c -ing the drive, and >on the install from floppies. I don't remember this happening when I installed >on the ESDI drive. My new controller is a Ultrastore 14F. But everything >seems to work in the end. I have X and all up and running, so I guess the >retries worked, but anyone know why I might have gotten these errors or whether >its serious or not? > I have a 14F and had the same problem with 0.98, so I cheated and commented out the printk() in floppy.c that displayed the message. It only happened on my 1.44 MB floppy, and everything seemed to work despite the messages, so I lost 'em. It seems to be cleared up in 0.98 pl4. I kind of wonder if it's a problem with the 14F or a kernel problem; I didn't get the error under previous versions. >-- >Teresa Selling >South Bend, IN Scott Taylor n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu